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If there's too much ice or snow on the rails, locomotives' steel wheels will just spin out when traveling up inclines. Now, however, GE Transportation has developed a supersonic air blower to keep those tracks dry.

Getting to Mars is a difficult, long and costly journey. However, Finnish scientists may have a solution based on combining an electric solar sail invented in 2006 with fuel stations orbiting around Earth and the Red Planet.

For many of us, dogs are part of our families and we want to keep them safe and healthy as we would any other family member. That's the aim of Dogtelligent's new Connected Collar. The collar is designed to help individuals train and track their dog, as well as manage its activity and health.

IBM scientists have unveiled two crucial advances toward the creation of a practical quantum computer: an effective way to detect and correct quantum errors, and the design of a silicon chip that can scale up to house a large number of entangled quantum bits.

New in the sports wearables market is GogglePal, a heads-up display for snowboarders and skiers that places real-time fitness stats, navigational cues, and games unobtrusively in the user's ski goggles. Three levels of models are offered as pledge rewards in the company's Kickstarter campaign.

Project Ara might be a way off getting a consumer launch, but a new crowdfunding project hopes to scratch that modular itch in the meantime. Nexpaq is designed to providing users with a choice of add-ons, with options that increase battery life, add an SD card slot and more.

When a vein or artery gets seriously blocked, a common course of action involves replacing it with part of another blood vessel harvested from elsewhere in the patient's body. Scientists have now developed an alternative – polymer fabric vessels that transform into biological ones, once implanted.

Sweeping the floor can be a hassle in its own right, but for some people, having to stoop down and collect the sweepings in a dustpan is just too much. If you're one of those people, you might like Bruno – it's a garbage can that automatically sucks up debris that's swept toward it.

A team of five mechanical engineering seniors from Rice University, in Houston, Texas, has been tasked by NASA to design furniture suitable for use in future habitats on Mars, the Moon, or in space itself.

The LG G3 wasn't a perfect phone, but it still cracked our list of the top handsets of 2014. Can the company's 2015 flagship, the LG G4, do better? We can start by comparing the two phones' features and specs.

It's hard to imagine that some pickup truck owners wish their vehicle was more sassy, but for those who do, a new Skoda concept might be just what they're after. The Skoda Funstar is a pickup truck based on the firm's Fabia model. It's designed to be cheeky, fresh and surprising.

As internet commerce matures, consumers are expecting more immediate delivery of goods, but the packing warehouses need to keep up. To help speed up shipping, Fetch Robotics has unveiled Fetch and Freight; a robotic tag team that takes over the boring task of collecting and delivering stock.